Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-03
Fruit in Chicago.

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CHICAGO, October 1st.-California fruits
have been steady, without much change in
prices during the last few days for really
tine grades. In pears there was some trade,
the general market, however, ruling quiet
There Is great deal of miscellaneous and
ordinary stock on the market which is
quite slow and dull. Winter Nellis, Howell
ana Duchess varieties brought 81 TO 81 %
per box. Ounces were in fair supply, and
the market was a little dull, the demand
being very moderate. Prices are about
steady at 81 90 to 81 75 per box. In con-
sequence OF the large supplies of Concord
grapes and other homegrown varieties on
the market prices are weak and lower
tokays and muscats in double crates being
- 70 to 81 so; fancy Natoma tolays and
muScats S3 to 50 25; Emperors 50 IS to So,
and Carnechon 81 25 to 81 rs.
Women's Relief Corps Officers.
ST. LOUIS, October 2d-The following
additional officers were elected bv the
Momens Relief Corps last evening
treasurer, Mrs. Elizabeth A Turner. Bos-
ton; Chaplain, Mrs. Mary Garrard Clin-
ton, Ia. Inspector mot snnounced); Coun-
selor. Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood, Toledo, O.;
lnstiluting and Installing Officer, Mrs. S.
Z. Nichols. Auburn, n. Y; Executive
Board--National Counselor, Mrs. Sarah II.
'tAS iicihOCls oOStOu NlIS. t4lIZA-
beth D'A. Kinne, San Francisco; Mrs. C.
ID. Craig, Viroqua, Wis; Mrs Clara E.
Nichols, Des Moines, Ia Mrs. Julia ID.
Tine, Rockford, H.; Mrs Magaret Wick
ins, Seleatha, Kan.
International Military Competitioa.
CHICAGO, October 2d.-Preparations are
nearly completed for the formal opening
on Monday of the first really international
military encampment ever held in the Uni
ted States. The regular army will be rep
resented by detachments of infantry. cav
airy and artillery, and the navy bv blue
jackets and marines from the United States
steamer Michigan. OF the militia, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Ken
lucky will have battalion or full regimentaI
representation.
Beecher's Friend and Eulogist
NEW YORK, October 2d.-Rev. DR.. Par
ker, of the City Temple, London, who is to
pronounce the eulogy on Henry Ward
Beecher in the Brooklyn Academy of Music
on Monday night, preached today in
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, in the pulpit
where his friend stood for forty years. His
subject was: Not Here, But Risen" The
sermon was largely memorial discourse.
Fatal Railroad Accident.
MILWAUKEE, October 2d.-A dispatch
from Escanba, Mich, SAYS news has been
received OF a serious accident on the =. Soo''
road, near Gladstone. A work train, in
backing down, struck a COW and was de-
rallied. The conductor and a brakeman
were killed, and several others injured
X. of l.. General Assembly.
MINNEAPOLIS, October 2d.-Arrange-
ments for the morning exercises of the
knights of Labor General Assembly are
completed. The welcoming addresses will
be made by the Mayor and Governor, with
responses by Messrs Powderly and
Litchmann. In the evening there will be
an entertainment, with addresses by Pow
derly and j. a. Streeter, President of the,
National Farmers Alliance, followed by
grand ball
Miners on Strike.
CHICAGO, October 2d-A special from
Springfield, Ill, says the miners in the
Springfield and Petersburg districts are out
on strike for an advance in wages to 67I
cents per ton. They have been getting
about 90 cents. Over l 800 men are IDLE.